Denys Balan
Ukrainian footballer (born 1993)
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Denys Dmytrovych Balan (Ukrainian: Денис Дмитрович Балан; born 18 August 1993) is a Ukrainian professional footballer who plays as a defender for Feniks-Mariupol.
Full name
Denys Dmytrovych Balan
Date of birth
18 August 1993
Place of birth
Odesa, Ukraine
Height
1.77 m (5 ft 10 in)
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Denys Dmytrovych Balan | ||
| Date of birth | 18 August 1993 | ||
| Place of birth | Odesa, Ukraine | ||
| Height | 1.77 m (5 ft 10 in) | ||
| Position | Defender | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team | Feniks-Mariupol | ||
| Number | 39 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 2000–2008 | DYuSSh-11 Odesa | ||
| 2009–2010 | Dynamo Kyiv | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2010–2014 | Dynamo Kyiv | 0 | (0) |
| 2012 | → Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk (loan) | 0 | (0) |
| 2013 | → Dynamo-2 Kyiv | 8 | (0) |
| 2014–2015 | Real Pharma Odesa | 25 | (1) |
| 2015–2017 | Cherkaskyi Dnipro | 33 | (0) |
| 2017 | Chornomorets Odesa | 3 | (0) |
| 2017–2021 | Inhulets Petrove | 85 | (3) |
| 2021–2022 | Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih | 16 | (0) |
| 2022 | Táborsko | 0 | (0) |
| 2022 | Zlaté Moravce | 6 | (0) |
| 2023–2024 | Veres Rivne | 28 | (1) |
| 2025 | Podillya Khmelnytskyi | 8 | (0) |
| 2025– | Feniks-Mariupol | 17 | (0) |
| International career‡ | |||
| 2009 | Ukraine U16 | 9 | (0) |
| 2009–2010 | Ukraine U17 | 13 | (0) |
| 2010–2011 | Ukraine U18 | 10 | (0) |
| 2011–2012 | Ukraine U19 | 8 | (0) |
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* Club domestic league appearances and goals as of 27 December 2025 ‡ National team caps and goals as of 21 October 2022 | |||
Club career
Early years
Balan is a product of the DYuSSh-11 in his native city Odesa and Dynamo Kyiv academies.
He played for Dynamo Kyiv and Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk in the Ukrainian Premier League Reserves and then in the Ukrainian Second League and Ukrainian First League until July 2017, when he signed contract with Chornomorets Odesa.[1]
In December 2022, he signed a one-and-a-half-year contract with Veres Rivne in the Ukrainian Premier League.[2]
